Big Blue24
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I've been home-brewing Auto Tranny Fluid for my personal trucks for quite a few years. I've never liked the super-slippery OEM fluids like ATF+4 which are great for grandpa smooth shifts, not so great for high HP tranny life or firm shifts on a race truck.
Several years back my good friend Jamar had a low 13 second 2003 Dodge Cummins 2wd that started to have slipping tranny issues with the original 48re transmission. His ET's had dropped to the low 15 second range due to the almost gone slipping stock tranny. One Friday before a midnight mayhem street legal drag racing night, we changed out the stock ATF +4 fluid and refilled it with my home-brew transmission fluid. We both were dumbfounded when his truck went right back to running low 13's with little to no tranny slippage. Jamar limped the hurt/bandaided tranny along for a few more months before he went in for a full rebuild and upgraded the 48re transmission. That was the first real-world test of how much better a transmission will perform with the non-OEM fluid.
Several years have gone by and we've been slowly tweaking the transmission fluid to make it better and better. Power Torque ATF is Power Driven's finished product and is truly the best transmission fluid on the market for performance transmissions or stock transmissions that need a little firmer shift or more torque capacity for that hot tune or programmer.
So why the title of the post; this fluid is like a shift kit in a bottle. It's been professionally formulated and balanced by chemists and oil engineers and bottled for distribution.
I'd like this thread to be a place for forum members to share their fluid preferences/experiences with custom transmission fluid in their Dodge 48re's, Ford 5r110's, Allison A-1000's etc. So post up what you use in your built or stock transmission and if you try Power Torque ATF, post up your results.
We plan to dyno a bone stock 12 valve automatic with OEM ATF+4 and add power till it slips and flatlines the torque output. We will then simply change the fluid in the tranny to Power Torque ATF and re-dyno. We're hoping to see a 20% increase in torque capacity from the fluid alone, it might be ambitious but it will be fun to see!!!
If you'd like to try Power Torque ATF at a discounted price, use promotion code OIL20 to save 20% on your oil purchase. Power Torque ATF is available at http://www.powerdrivendiesel.com/product/power-torque-atf/
Several years back my good friend Jamar had a low 13 second 2003 Dodge Cummins 2wd that started to have slipping tranny issues with the original 48re transmission. His ET's had dropped to the low 15 second range due to the almost gone slipping stock tranny. One Friday before a midnight mayhem street legal drag racing night, we changed out the stock ATF +4 fluid and refilled it with my home-brew transmission fluid. We both were dumbfounded when his truck went right back to running low 13's with little to no tranny slippage. Jamar limped the hurt/bandaided tranny along for a few more months before he went in for a full rebuild and upgraded the 48re transmission. That was the first real-world test of how much better a transmission will perform with the non-OEM fluid.
Several years have gone by and we've been slowly tweaking the transmission fluid to make it better and better. Power Torque ATF is Power Driven's finished product and is truly the best transmission fluid on the market for performance transmissions or stock transmissions that need a little firmer shift or more torque capacity for that hot tune or programmer.
So why the title of the post; this fluid is like a shift kit in a bottle. It's been professionally formulated and balanced by chemists and oil engineers and bottled for distribution.
I'd like this thread to be a place for forum members to share their fluid preferences/experiences with custom transmission fluid in their Dodge 48re's, Ford 5r110's, Allison A-1000's etc. So post up what you use in your built or stock transmission and if you try Power Torque ATF, post up your results.
We plan to dyno a bone stock 12 valve automatic with OEM ATF+4 and add power till it slips and flatlines the torque output. We will then simply change the fluid in the tranny to Power Torque ATF and re-dyno. We're hoping to see a 20% increase in torque capacity from the fluid alone, it might be ambitious but it will be fun to see!!!
If you'd like to try Power Torque ATF at a discounted price, use promotion code OIL20 to save 20% on your oil purchase. Power Torque ATF is available at http://www.powerdrivendiesel.com/product/power-torque-atf/